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Darkest Dungeon Senua Mod

After what seems like an eternity lost in madness a newcomer claws her way back to reality and drags her sorry carcass into the Hamlet. While her grip on sanity is tenuous at best she draws strength from madness and she will ride that whirlwind of destruction into oblivion itself. Sometimes, if she is lucky, she'll still be standing amidst the wreckage. A solitary figure left alive to mourn for the fallen.

A Senua has entered the Hamlet. What is a Senua, you might ask? Is it related to Senuna the obscure Celtic goddess? Perhaps. Is it related to Senua from Hellbade: Senua's Sacrifice? Absolutely! She even bears the severed head of her lover on her quest into darkness but if ever there was a character suited to Darkest Dungeon then it is she. With her hallucinations and delusions she should fit right in among the other denizens of the Hamlet.


They say that madmen fight with the strength of ten. Perhaps this woman can prove that saying true. One of the core concepts of the Senua class is that her damage scales with stress. The more stress she has, the more damage she deals. Her sword skilsls deal an additional 10% damage for every 20 stress she has up to a maximum of +40% damage at 80 stress or higher. Obviously having 80 stress is quite dangerous as it runs the risk of affliction but it's up to you to decide how much of a gamble you want to take.

Wild Strike: A quick light attack that has a high chance of granting riposte*.
Mighty Blow: A heavy hard hitting attack that deals great damage but has a lower chance of granting riposte*.
Kick: A good solid kick delivered to the shield (or straight between the legs). This skill attempts to stun enemies who are guarding but will instead attempt to knock back those who are not guarding anyone. Those who are guarding need not fear the knock back. Only the stun is coming their way.
Stab: An advancing attack designed to penetrate armour. Can only be used from the middle two positions and has a high chance of granting riposte*.
Face Time: Sometimes Senua just needs to talk to the severed head that hangs at her side. It's very disturbing. This skill toughens her up but inflicts Horror on her allies (although they fight a little harder due to the stress of the situation).
Head Case: Sometimes there's just too much horror. Boss monsters, mad men, Senua using her Face Time skill... This skill transfers all the Horror that other heroes are experiencing directly on to Senua so she can wallow in her suffering and her sorrows. It also blinds her to her friends and foes. She is the only person here and enemies strike at her from the shadows. All enemies and all allies gain Stealth although her denial of reality (or the unreal nature of the experience) makes her much more resistant to critical hits which would fell a lesser warrior.
Focus: While the Leper has a skill of the same name it was hard to find one better. Those of you who've played Hellblade will know that Senua uses her ability to focus in combat as well as out of it. This skill reveals that which was hidden removing stealth from all friends and all foes. However it also causes them to stagger under the weight of this shocking revelation inflicting stuns on everyone but herself. It also grants her a small self heal to help her recover from all the damage she probably took when she was the only available target.

*Percentage based riposte: Senua's riposte is not always guaranteed. Mighty Blow only grants riposte 50% of the time whilst Stab and Wild Strike have a 70% chance to grant riposte. Furthermore since Riposte does not have default tooltips, it's worth noting that her riposte removes Stealth from the attacker and lowers the light level by 3 to represent the encroaching darkess that she fears in addition to being a counterrattack.


Huddled around the campfire, what pictures and faces does she see in those flames? Four spirit guides shepherd Senua on her path. As she spends most of her time distraught with madness and wrapped up in her own problems it didn't feel right for Senua to have the three default camping skills of encourage, pep talk and wound cae. Instead she has four rather more personal skills for use when sitting around the camp fire.

Seeking Patterns: Druth shares his wisdom and stories helping her to see patterns where others see none.
Mother's Madness: Galena offers momentary stress relief and encouragement but it starts to come back afterwards as the darkness grows ever deeper.
Lover's Comfort: Dillion believes in Senua. He is kind and supportive allowing her to feel more optimistic and calm.
The Shadow: Zinball forces Senua to face her darkest fears. His particular rband of tough love migth be harsh and cruel. he puts her through hell and back but she returns stronger than ever before (although the darkness grows ever deeper still when his influence is felt).

Credits:
Acero Steel for the amazing character art
Scorpiovaeden for the animation
RedDyeNo5 for the skill icons and trinket art
Clair de Lune for helping out with the scripting and coding (although I'm getting better at it, honest)
O'Nightmare for originally suggesting using .skill_instant for the stress based damage buff
& generally everybody in the Darkest Dungeon modding community who helped test the mod or gave me some advice that turned out to be helpful